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run someone or something to something

1. to run someone or something to some extreme extent, such as death. The villain's idea was to run his victim to death by chasing him. He nearly ran his horse to death.

2. to drive someone or something to some place. Could you run me to the store? Please run these clothes to the cleaners.

See also: run

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But before he had finished speaking, Prince Andrew, feeling tears of shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to the standard. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context Then he roused me up, and I took my turn of three hours; before the end of which it was broad day, and a very quiet morning, with a smooth, rolling sea that tossed the ship and made the blood run to and fro on the round-house floor, and a heavy rain that drummed upon the roof. Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context The Scoodlers who had thrown their heads began to scramble down and run to pick them up, with wonderful quickness; but the one whose head Toto had stolen found it hard to get it back again. The Road to Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context			run out of run out of gas run out of some place run out of steam run out of time run out on run out the clock run over run over to run over with run ragged run rampant run rhymes run rings around run riot run scared run short Run that by again run the gamut run the gantlet run the gauntlet run the good race run the risk run the show run through run to run to earth run to ground run up run up against run up the flagpole run up to some place run with run with it run with the hare and hunt with the hounds run-of-the-mill runaround rung running running high running on empty running on fumes runt of the litter rush rush at rush for rush hour rush in rush into rush into print rush off			run through run through run through run through run through Run time Run time Run time Run time Run Time Client Lite Run Time Efficiency Run Time Engine Run Time Engine Run time environment Run Time Error Run Time Error Run Time Error Run Time Interconnect Run Time Interface Run Time Interface Document Run Time Library Run Time Library Run Time Package Run Time Self Tuning Run time system Run time system Run time type information Run Time Version Run Times Run Times run to run to earth run to earth run to earth run to earth run to earth Run To End Of Life run to ground run to ground run to ground run to ground run to ground Run to Run run to seed run to seed run to seed run to seed run to seed Run to Settlement Run to the Hills Run to the Light run together Run Ultima Online run under run up run up run up run up run up run up against run up against someone or something

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